Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-23
TRAITORS IN ERIN'S CAMP
A PORTION OF THE GLADSTON-
IANS BEGIN TO WAIVER.

Commons Continued to After Midday
Before tho supply Bin Psssed-Nr.
Morley Opposes Precedence of the
Criminal Law Measure In "A Vigorous
Speech.
LONDON, March 22.-The House OF
Commons sat all night. The government
tried to dispose OF the naval and civil
service bills, but the home rule members
by obstruction prevented any action
being taken. Two hundred and sixty
members were present. At oo'clock this
morning the House was still In committee
Of supply. Mr.. Raikes, Postmaster Cen
eral, relieved MI. Courtney, chairman OF
the committee, in the Chair, during the
discussion OF the civil service vote, be-
cause the proceedings were farcical.
Mr.. Tanner, member for Cork, informed
the Char that fresh batch of eloquent
Parnellites would arrive on the O'Clock
train this morning to reinforce the oppo-
sition vote.
The House adjourned at 1:25 o'clock
this afternoon. Before rising the House
passed the civil service bin.
SMITH MOVES PRECEDENCE.
William Henry Smith, the government
leader, arose amid cheers in the House of
Commons this evening and moved that
the bill for TIE amendment OF the criminal
law in Ireland have precedence over all
orders of the day. He said Ireland was
in a state of DISCRIMINATION and the gov
ernment was bound to act under sense
Of public duty, particularly when 1t found
! Jurles in that country 1ntlmdat-
ed, and notorious criminals. whose
deeds were inimical to the existence
! of society, getting OFF scot free. Mr..
! Smith said he would refrain from stating
| the details of the measure, leaving that to
the Chief Secretary for Ireland. What he
now urged was that the measure was alb
| solutely necessary for the security and
| happiness OF the law-abiding population
| OF Ireland. Referring TO the proposed
| amendment offered last night by John
Morley, rejecting the declaration of ur-
| gency for the government bill, Mr. smith
reminded the House how Mr.. Gladstone
resisted the adoption of similar amend
ment in 1881. The position OF the govern
ment now was the same as that OF Mr..
| Gladstone's government then.
THE LAND BILL.
Regarding their ameliorative policy to-
| ward Ireland the speaker said the gov
| erpmenGs land bill would be divided into
| two parts. One of these would be intro
duced Immediately. The other would be
a land purchase bill OF wide scope. Both
| measures would be found to be framed on
principles OF honesty and justice. The
| speaker, however, thought the govern
ment could not hope that any measure
| framed on these lines would satisfy the
/ Irish National League, which, he said,
was the successor OF the Land League,
and was the cause of all the disorganiZa-
tiOn and terrorism pervading Ireland.
Mr.. Smith said ne hoped the House would
speedily adopt the governments meas
| ures. If the House did not adopt them
the government would be compelled to
ask the opinion of the country to
either confirm their policy or relieve
them OF the responsibilities of govern
ment. Cheers.
John Morley, moving rejection OF the
motion for urgency, denied absolutely Mr..
Smiths assertions as 10 the lawless con-
ditiOn OF Ireland and demanded that the
government give comparative statistics
of crime IN Ireland which, he said, would
| show that beyond a certain very narrow
area the country had seldom been quieter.
| The governments proposed restrictive
! legieiatiOn would only aggravate such
evils as existed, and would weaken and
spoil whatever remedies they had in store.
THE LAND COMMISSIONS FINDING.
The Land Commission had declared
that the secret and cause OF com binations
among the people was the inability of the
! tenants to pay excessive rente. 1t had
! been shown that the Irisn landlords COM
bine habits of extravaganza in emulation
OF the richer landlords OF England with
system of rack rent. No matter how
| hard the tenants might strive TO meet
their rents this wretched landlord system
crushed them. The coercion proposals of
the government appeared to be based
upon the idea that the people OF Ireland
were indolent ard dishonest. But those
l.. q knI
tion OF their character. They believed
them to he honest, hard-wOrking
and truthful. He could only
regard the bill "a a measure de-
signed to enable landlords TO exact
exorbitant rents, throwing the law on the
side OF the rich, removing all coercion or
protective power which tenants deriv ed
Srom combining and putting coercion
upon the unfortunate tenants.
HIS CHIEF ANXIETY.
He was less anxious TO secure rents for
some hard landlords than to secure just
treatment for those good and honest
working people. Cheers Some land
lords practiced a plan Of campaign OF
their own more immoral and more deserv-
ing OF being called a swindie than was
the plan OF the tenants. Some land agents
attempted to coerce tenants into buying
under the Ashbourne act, debating
/ lub teri VI pun lChhSG buu buItulSuiug "
eyict unless the tenant consented Yet
the government demanded urgency for
the bill, giving such men power to force
tenants to pay unreasonable rent or to
purchase at an unreasonable price. Be-
hind this bill lay another proposal-that
the British taxpayer be security II the
coercion OF tenants failed TO satisfy the
landlords. 1t was Irish history over
again, moral wrongs pressing upon suffer-
ing people without legal remedy; then
illegal acts To secure something like moral
rights; then coercion driving just discon-
tent under the surface and exciting fiercer
discomfort. Cheers.
THE wISEsT POLICY.
The wisest policy was remedial legisla-
tion whicn would destroy the roots OF the
discomfort. In 1891, when the coercion
bill was passed, the number OF eyictions
! rose enormously. The number OF out
RACES Increased from 40 IN February,
| 1881. 10 40 in January, 1892 and 10 53l in
March. He doubted whether the excess
sive penal laws oftbe eighteenth century
did more injury TO Ireland than did the
agrarian laws OF the present century. 10
ask urgency Tor placing the law upOn the
eide OF the landlord was TO shut the door
OF hope upon the tenants. His deliberate
conviction was that there had never been
more wanton, gratuit0us and unjusti-
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